1377. Langl., P. Pl., B. XV. 350. Wederwise shipmen.
1556. S. Burrough, in Hakluyt, Voy. (1589), 319. I maruelled why he departed so suddenly, and went ouer the shoales…. But after I perceiued them to be weather wise.
1637. J. Taylor (Water P.), Drinke & Welcome, C 3 b. Some by their cornes are wondrous Weather-wise.
1735. B. Franklin, Poor Richard (1890), 50. Some are weatherwise, some are otherwise.
1802. Coleridge, Dejection, 1. If the Bard was weather-wise, who made The grand old ballad of Sir Patrick Spence.
1849. G. P. R. James, Woodman, vi. Auguring rain to the minds of the weather-wise.
1866. A. Steinmetz, Weathercasts, 35. A certain weather-wise nobleman, Lord Portarlington, predicted the intensely hot summer of last year.
1895. Meredith, Amazing Marr., I. xv. 167. Are you weather-wise?—able to tell when the clouds will hold off or pelt?
b. fig.
1581. W. Stafford, Exam. Compl., i. (1876), 27. Some weather-wise fellowes, that coulde chaunge their opinions as the more and stronger part did chaunge theirs.
1917. Gwynn & Tuckwell, Sir C. Dilke, li. II. 313. He was weatherwise in the assembly, and knew the conditions which might lead to unforeseen disturbance.
